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5y Anniversary of the GDPR: Agenda & Speakers

AGENDA

Time

Subjects

Speakers

 

18:00

Registration & Welcome Drink

18:50 Opening Remarks  

Armin Hartmuth, Deputy Director, Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union

Joachim Herrmann, Bavarian State Minister of the Interior, for Sport and Integration (Video message)

19:00

Keynote Speech

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Didier Reynders, Commissioner for Justice, European Commission

19:10

Keynote Speech

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Maciej Szpunar, First Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union

19:20 Keynote Speech jelinek Andrea Jelinek, Chair of the European Data Protection Board
19:30

Panel Discussion

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Estelle Massé, Europe Legislative Manager and Global Data Protection Lead, Access Now (Moderator)

    jurova Věra Jourová, European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency
    sippel Birgit Sippel, Member of the European Parliament, Coordinator of S&D Group in the LIBE Committee
    ahmed Sara Ahmed, Chair of the Council of the European Union Working Party on Data Protection, Swedish Presidency
    kleber Ulrich Kelber, German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
    ww Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor, EDPS
20:30  Closing remarks petri Thomas Petri, Bavarian Data Protection Commissioner
20:40 Reception

 

SPEAKERS

Sara Ahmed, Chair of the Council of the European Union Working Party on Data Protection, Swedish Presidency

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Sara Ahmed is a senior lawyer and head of the legal area data protection at the Ministry of Justice in Stockholm. She is also the Chair of the Council Working Party on Data Protection during the Swedish Presidency. Previous she worked as a judge in Swedish courts.

Andrea Jelinek, Chair of the European Data Protection Board

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Dr. Andrea Jelinek is the chair of The European Data Protection Board (EDPB). Since January 1, 2014, Dr. Jelinek, who holds a doctorate degree in law, has served as the head of the Austrian Data Protection Authority. While still a student, she worked as a consultant at the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), later as a trainee lawyer, and from 1991 as a legal officer at the General Secretariat of the Austrian Rectors' Conference. Two years later, Dr. Jelinek moved to the Ministry of the Interior, where she first worked as a legal officer and later as head of department in the legal and legislative department. One of her specializations - asylum and immigration law - helped determine her further career. From October 2010 to June 2011, she was head of the Vienna Foreign Police. Before that, in 2003, she was the first woman in Vienna to be appointed head of a police commissioner's office.

Věra Jourová, European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency

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Věra Jourová is currently Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency and deals with democracy, rule of law, media pluralism and fight against disinformation. From 2014 to 2019, she served as EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality. In 2014, before arriving to the European Commission, Ms Jourová held the position of Minister for Regional Development in the Czech Republic.

Previous to this, from 2006 to 2013, she worked in her own company as an international consultant on European Union funding, and was also involved in consultancy activities in the Western Balkans relating to the European Union Accession. She holds a Degree in Law (Mgr.) and a Master's degree (Mgr.) in the Theory of Culture from the Charles University, Prague.

Ulrich Kelber, German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

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Born in Bamberg on 29 March 1968, married, five children, Computer scientist.

Member of the German Bundestag since September 2000, won a directly-elected seat in the Bonn constituency in 2002, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017.

2005-2013: Deputy chairman of the parliamentary group of the SPD in the Bundestag, responsible for the areas of the environment, nature conservation, nuclear safety, food, agriculture, consumer protection, sustainability.

2013-2018: Parlamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.

2019: Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

Estelle Massé, Europe Legislative Manager and Global Data Protection Lead, Access Now

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Estelle Massé is Europe Legislative Manager and Global Data Protection Lead at Access Now. Her work focuses on data protection, privacy, surveillance and telecoms policies. In particular, Estelle leads the work of the organisation on data protection in the EU and around the world.

She is a member of the Multistakeholder Expert Group of the European Commission to support the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Data Policy and of the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly. She graduated with a Master in European Law from the University of Granada, Spain.

Thomas Petri, Bavarian Data Protection Commissioner

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Thomas Petri studied law and worked from 1996 to 2000 as a lawyer in a commercial law firm. He then worked as a research associate with a research focus on constitutional law, police law and legal philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. 

After completing his doctorate, he moved to the Independent State Center for Data Protection in Schleswig-Holstein in the summer of 2000, where he was head of the department responsible for the supervision of the private sector. Four years later he was seconded as a research assistant to the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court. On July 1, 2006, he became Deputy Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information and Head of the Legal Department.

He became the Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection On July 1, 2009. In addition, he has been an honorary professor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences since March 30, 2016.

On 25 June 2021, the Bundesrat elected him as deputy member of the European Data Protection Board representing the federal states of Germany.

Didier Reynders, Commissioner for Justice, European Commission

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A father of four, Didier Reynders was born in Liège on 6th August 1958. In 1981, he obtained a degree in law at the University of Liège. Guest lecturer at the universities of Liège and Louvain, he has never really left the academic life until he became on 1th December 2019 European Commissioner for Justice.

After presiding the Belgian railways and the Belgian Airways Agency, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the PRL (Liberal party), before becoming a Member of Parliament in 1992. On 12th July 1999, he became Minister of Finance (until 6th December 2011) and, on 18th July 2004, (concurrently) Deputy Prime Minister (until 30th November 2019). He was Chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur (liberal party alliance) from 11th October 2004 until 14th February 2011.

He was Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs from 6th December 2011 until 11th October 2014. He became Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs, in charge of Beliris and Federal Cultural Institutions on 11th October 2014 (until 30th November 2019). He has also been Minister of Defense since 9 December 2018.

Since 1th December 2019 he is European Commissioner for Justice, in charge of Rule of Law and Consumer Protection.

Birgit Sippel, Member of the European Parliament, Coordinator of S&D Group in the LIBE Committee

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Birgit Sippel has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. In 2022, she has been re-elected as Coordinator of the S&D Group in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) for the third time in a row. In addition, she is a Substitute Member in the Committee of Inquiry to investigate Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA).

Furthermore, she held the position as Vice Chair of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) since 2020. She currently serves as the European Parliament Rapporteur for the Regulations on e-Privacy, for access to e-Evidence and Screening of third country nationals at the external borders as part of the New Pact on Migration.

Maciej Szpunar, First Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union

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Born in 1971 in Cracow (Poland), Mr Maciej Szpunar obtained a master's degree in law from the Uniwersytet Śląski (University of Silesia, Poland) in 1995 and from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium) in 1996. He presented his doctoral thesis in law in 2000, became a habilitated doctor in legal science in 2009, and then a professor of law in 2013 at the Uniwersytet Śląski. In 1998, his academic work took him to Jesus College, Cambridge (UK) where he was a visiting scholar, then to the University of Liège (Belgium) in 1999, and to the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) in 2003.

In 2001, he joined the Katowice Bar to take up the profession of lawyer, a profession which he practiced until 2008. During that period, he was also a member of the Committee for Private International Law of the Civil Law Codification Commission under the Polish Ministry of Justice. He was Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Committee for European Integration (Poland) from 2008 to 2009, before joining the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2013. During those three years, he represented the Polish government as an agent in a large number of cases before the Courts of the European Union.

He remains committed to academic research and is a member of the editorial board of a number of legal journals, which also led him to author numerous publications in the fields of European law and private international law.

Mr Szpunar was appointed as an Advocate General at the Court of Justice on 23 October 2013 and has held the position of First Advocate General since 11 October 2018.

Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor, EDPS

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Wojciech Wiewiórowski has been the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) since December 6th 2019.

He is also an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. He was, among others, an adviser in the field of e-government and information society for the Minister of Interior and Administration, and the Director of the Informatisation Department at the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Poland. He also represented Poland in the committee on Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (the ISA Committee) assisting the European Commission.

Wojciech Wiewiórowski was also the Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (Polish Data Protection Commissioner) between 2010-2014 and the Vice Chair of the Working Party Article 29 in 2014. In December 2014, he was appointed Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor. After the death of the Supervisor - Giovanni Buttarelli in August 2019 - he replaced Mr. Buttarelli as acting EDPS.

His areas of scientific activity include first of all Polish and European IT law, processing and security of information, legal information retrieval systems, informatisation of public administration, and application of new IT tools (semantic web, legal ontologies, cloud, blockchain) in legal information processing.